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20th Century

So…What’s Going Postal good for? (Part 1)

4th June 2026 Going Postal 0

Recently I received out of the blue an email, (forwarded by the inimitable AWS) from a fulminating Frenchman. He’d come across an article of mine on GP from 2022 – The Family at War four parter [more…]

20th Century

‘The Promised Land,’ by Anon

2nd June 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Before the invention of social media, people in workplaces found ways to share humour, satire, and political commentary through handwritten or copied notes circulating informally among colleagues. Employees might create cartoons or sarcastic messages poking [more…]

Arts

When We Was Fab – That Annual Cricket Dinner

1st June 2026 Going Postal 0

The cricket club I played for in Oz was part of a much larger sporting society. Netball, football, tennis, hockey and Aussie rules were all part of this rich tapestry. The cricket section was managed [more…]

Arts

Tin Foil Hat – Part 2

1st June 2026 well_chuffed 0

The question is what is in the tablets retrieved from Sumer and can the data be trusted. When watching videos on YouTube we must bear in mind that the creators want to make money from [more…]

Holmes and Watson
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 5/6: The Wolf Man of Mayfair. Part 1 of 2

31st May 2026 Tachybaptus 0

It was a sunny spring morning, and even amid the noise from busy Baker Street the open window admitted the song of a blackbird. Holmes laid down the News Chronicle to address himself to a [more…]

Business

A Plutocrats’ Tour of The North

30th May 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

For generations, the phrase “grim up north” has lingered in the national imagination — conjuring images of soot-stained skylines, struggling towns, and industries long past their prime. It is a shorthand that flattens the region [more…]

18th Century

George Stephenson: The Father of the Railways

27th May 2026 Going Postal 0

He couldn’t read his own name until he was 18. Then he built the technology that shrank the planet. George Stephenson was born in a two-room cottage in Wylam, Northumberland, on 9 June 1781. There [more…]

Arts

When We Was Fab – 21st Birthday Parties

25th May 2026 Going Postal 0

For my parents generation 21 was the passing into adulthood ( key to the door and all that). Never mind that half of them were married and had kids by then it was a significant [more…]

Arts

Time for the old tin foil hat again

25th May 2026 well_chuffed 0

I do so hope you have all got your tin foil hats ready, I am seldom without mine. Whenever I look at YouTube over the past few weeks there are loads of videos about Sumerian [more…]

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